Tony Stark

Anthony "Tony" Stark (born 26 April 1970), also known as "Iron Man", is an American billionaire industrialist who is the owner of Stark Industries. He formerly sold weapons, but after witnessing young soldiers dying around him and being told to make weapons for the terrorist Ten Rings group while in captivity, he invented the "Iron Man" suit and escaped captivity. Stark set out to destroy all stolen Stark Tech and was a sort of "superhero", and joined an international superhero team called "The Avengers".

Early Life
Anthony Stark was born on 26 April 1970 to legendary innovator Howard Stark and Maria Stark, and was raised in immense wealth. Tony rarely saw his father, who was cold and calculating, and when his parents died in 1991, he became the youngest CEO of any major company. Helped by Obadiah Stane, he built smarter weapons and advanced robotics, and he founded Intelli-Corps to stop world hunger, as well as helping with medical technology.

However, Stark was spoiled and was a womanizer. Stark attended a celebration in Bern, Switzerland, in 1999 to celebrate the end of the millenium, where he got to know (and forget) important people such as Ho Yinsen and Aldrich Killian. He learned from Killian that he had plans to make a huge company called Advanced Idea Mechanics (or simply "A.I.M."), and he promised Killian to talk to him about his plans. He later reneged on this promise to spend the night with scientist Maya Hansen, making Killian realize that he had to do the work all by himself.

Captivity in Afghanistan
In 2009, Stark was awarded the Apogee Award for his intelligent work, but was not present at the awards ceremony, and Rhodes gave him the award later while he was playing craps. As he left the Caesars' Palace casino, he gave the award to a man dressed as Caesar and drove off in his limousine. Also that year, Stark invented a new type of military technology that could shape the world: the Jericho missile. A cluster bomb with a large range, he was scheduled to present it to the US Army and Afghan National Army (ANA) at Kabul, Afghanistan the day after his award ceremony at Caesars' Palace. However, while traveling on a humvee from Kunar to Kabul, Stark was wounded in the chest by shrapnel after watching his guards die in an ambush. Stark was captured by the Ten Rings, who were hired by Stane to capture him in exchange for Stane becoming the new leader of Stark Industries.

Stark was held in a cave with Ho Yinsen, whom he had met in Bern in 1999 but had forgotten. Stark woke up to find that he had an electromagnetical heart monitor that could power him for five lifetimes, enhancing a design made by Yinsen. He was told by the Ten Rings that he had one week to build the Ten Rings one of his Jericho missiles, but he knew very well that they would not let him go as they promised. Stark secretly built a suit of iron that could use flamethrowers and Gatling guns, and the incompetent guard of the caves believed that he was building a new model of the missile. One day, Stark disappeared from the camera's sight as he was being suited up in his armor. When men were sent to find him, Stark used his flamethrowers to burn them and destroyed weapons caches around the caves. He fought his way past the guards and reached the daylight, but as he did so, he found out that Yinsen was gunned down trying to buy him time so that he could escape. Stark killed the terrorists on cliffs outside, before finding out that they had stockpiles of Stark Industries weaponry. Stark destroyed all of them before flying away. While flying, his suit malfunctioned and he fell into sand. After hiking for miles, he was found by his friend, Lieutenant-Colonel James Rhodes, and was picked up into his helicopter and flown back to the United States.

Stane's Plot
Stark announced that Stark Industries would no longer sell weapons, explaining that he saw young soldiers die at the hands of technology that he invented. Stane was confused and tried to reason with Tony in private, but he was unable to convince Stark to reinvigorate the weapons program. Stane told Stark that he should lay low while Stane took all of the heat. However, he secretly filed charges against Stark, saying that he had post-traumatic stress disorder at a board of directors meeting in New York City. Stark was thus barred from business, with Stane telling him that the board decided to declare him unwell.

Testing the Suit
Eventually, Stark planned to build up a new model of his "Mark I" suit that he built in captivity, a silver model called "Mark II". He tested his flying ability around the compound, using afterburners in addition to hovering. He was also able to test the suit's strength in opening warehouse doors before testing his repulsor beams against targets in the warehouse. At the same time, he learned from his assistant Pepper Potts that armed men were attacking the compound. He noticed that they were Maggia soldiers, and killed all of the attacking men and jeeps as well as one of their helicopters. Stark decided to destroy Maggia and all of his stolen Stark Industries weapons; many of them were covertly sold by Stane.